Harking back to the very earliest days of the Orange Rag, every newsletter will have a legal tech clinic, where end users submit their conundrums for expert opinion and advice.
This month, our expert legal tech clinic panellist is Paul Longhurst, founder and director of 3Kites Consulting. The issue is one that many firms of 50-250 seats are trying to solve for, and their question…
Continue Reading Orange Rag Legal Tech Clinic: “How do we retain independence but invest in tech?”

In the previous article, the focus was on what Singapore introduced in the new Health Information Bill and why it raised expectations for access control, traceability, and governance. Those requirements matter because healthcare teams need to share more information for continuity of care, while still demonstrating strong safeguards over sensitive data.
That is where execution becomes the differentiator. Organizations…
Continue Reading From compliance intent to execution: how Knovos Rooms supports PHI protection and audit-ready collaboration

To read today’s news, you’d think it was the shot heard ’round the world — or around the legal tech world, at least. “Legal software companies have suffered sharp declines in their share prices,” reports The Guardian. “Anthropic’s Move Into Legal, Data Services Sinks Software Stocks,” says Bloomberg. “A selloff in … stocks deepened on […]
Continue Reading Anthropic’s Legal Plugin for Claude Cowork May Be the Opening Salvo In A Competition Between Foundation Models and Legal Tech Incumbents

Stella Legal, a fast-growing UK-founded legal technology consultancy, has partnered with contract lifecycle management provider Sirion as a flagship implementation partner. Stella Legal was founded last year by CEO Tyson Ballard together with Alyssa Kokilah (senior director), Yolanda Van Wyk (general counsel), and Gordon Williams (client delivery). In the space of 12 months grown to a team of 110…
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Generative AI vendor Anthropic has unveiled a legal plugin that helps customise its large language model Claude for legal tasks such as document review, sending public legal software stocks into an ensuing spin today (3 February).
Anthropic in January launched Claude Cowork; a user-friendly version to make Claude Code more accessible. Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that lives…
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In this second TalkingTech podcast with Acuity Law, the focus shifts from the implementation of Thomson Reuters CoCounsel, to future use cases, integrations, and what AI could mean for ROI, pricing and competitive positioning.Legal IT Insider’s editor Caroline Hill again spoke with Claire Cooper, transformation lead and solicitor at Acuity Law, who helped to lead the rollout.AdvertisementHighQ …
Continue Reading Podcast: The implementation of CoCounsel at Acuity – Future use cases and ROI

Davos, Switzerland: Session from The Washington Post House

For the past few years, the narrative around artificial intelligence has been one of ethereal magic. Models spun text from prompts, conjured images from imagination, and lived inside our browsers. But as the dust settles at the 2026 World Economic Forum, a new, more grounded conversation has taken center stage. The…
Continue Reading Beyond the Chatbot: AI’s Physical Reckoning

In 2013, the Legal Services Corporation published the landmark study, Report of The Summit on the Use of Technology to Expand Access to Justice. The report forcefully made the case that technology could be a powerful – indeed, essential – tool in narrowing the justice gap, and its recommendations helped shape the last decade of […]
Continue Reading LSC Issues Blueprint for Narrowing the Justice Gap through Technology Innovation in Civil Legal Services

FTI managing director Tom Barce predicts that “overreliance on AI is going to cause a discovery problem. It is only a matter of time before someone blames a large language model for a privilege waiver or inadvertent production of highly confidential information.”
Continue Reading Governance Woes Likely to Mushroom as Legal Teams Accelerate AI Adoption